how to communicate with a terminal/machine that does not use a mouse?

so there is this terminal that is connected to something like a lotto center and gets live realtime lotto drawing results.

the terminal/machine (embedded system?), i think, does not use the common operating systems like linux/unix/dos/pc. when someone purchase a lotto, you just enter the numbers, and hit a purchase button, and the numbers are sent to the lotto center. when the drawing results are out, it will immediately show the results on the screen.

how do i communicate with such machine using a pc, grab realtime lotto drawing results, and submit purchased numbers, etc? and use what programming language?

Re: how to communicate with a terminal/machine that does not use a mouse?

Posted 06 March 2013 - 10:06 PM

First off, of all the forums to put this in, what compelled you to use the lounge?

Secondly, with the incredibly limited amount of information you're giving us, I suspect a good answer will be impossible. All we really know is that you're trying to communicate with a machine that uses a non mainstream OS and doesn't have a mouse.

Re: how to communicate with a terminal/machine that does not use a mouse?

Posted 06 March 2013 - 10:16 PM

there are a lot of websites that display realtime lotto drawing results which are supposedly from the same type of terminals.

also the lotto drawings are held every 10 minutes, so it's practically impossible to manually enter/submit the purchased numbers when there are a lot of orders. the above mentioned websites also accept online orders, so they must be able to enter/process the orders using some kind of software communicating with the terminals.

i am trying to build a similar website. now i am temporarily grabbing the results from one of those sites. i can take orders, but i cannot process the orders manually. i dont have a clue where to even start with..